I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.

Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed.

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely

I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic.

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

Seafood on the grill can be intimidating if you don't know what you are doing. It's really quite easy

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

Immigrants have been the sustenance and the survival and the treasure of America.

The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively.

I am not, and have never been, in favor of boycotting Israel.